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A grandparent was outraged after a school in the United Kingdom installed metal cage-like doors to bathroom entrances to prevent students from using the restroom during class. “School is supposed to be a safe place for kids, and it is supposed to be a relaxed environment, but how it is a relaxed environment when they are locked up?”grandparent Ian Ward …

Some Vanderbilt University students protesting the administration’s removal of an anti-Israel, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) initiative from the student ballot have been suspended and arrested following an hours-long sit-in on Tuesday, according to reports. An amendment to the Vanderbilt Student Government Constitution, which would prevent student government funds from going to certain businesses that support Israel, was removed from …

Two graduate students from China whose studies were put on hold, and a professor who says he is unable to recruit research assistants, sued Florida education officials on Monday, trying to stop enforcement of a new state law which limits research exchanges between state universities and academics from seven prohibited countries. The law passed last year by the Republican-controlled Florida …

The Dartmouth College basketball team has made history. It didn’t qualify for March Madness, but after aMarch 5vote, the players are set to form the first union in college sports. While some people are heralding a new era for student athletes, my own experience in collegiate track and field leads me to believe that unionization will create far more losers …

Legal experts interviewed by Fox News Digital are expressing concern that President Joe Biden’s ongoing efforts to cancel student loans may be pushing the limits of his executive authority. The experts said the Biden administration’s pursuit of mass student debt forgiveness may be more politically motivated than legally justified, warning that additional legal challenges may arise as a result. Biden’s …

Students at one California school say they feel restricted by a digital ID app designed to track their time outside the classroom. According to a local report, Fresno High School rolled out the 5-Star Students app to help monitor trips outside the classroom that borrow from instructional time. Students, who are restricted to two, 7-minute bathroom trips daily, must plug …

Stanford University faculty and students have debated standardized testing as the prestigious higher education institution considers reinstating the test in the admissions process. “The tests themselves– they’re not ridiculously hard. They test basic algebra and geometry, the kind of thing you’d learn in ninth or 10th grade,” Stanford freshman Antonio Alonso-Stepanov told Fox News Digital. “And you just need to …

A school bus company will terminate its contract with St. Louis Public Schools a year early, bringing an end to a relationship strained after a noose was found near the workstation of a Black mechanic and an ensuing driver walkout that snarled bus service for one of Missouri’s largest school systems. Missouri Central School Bus Co. notified Mayor Tishaura Jones …

A university scholarship only offered to Black students is a violation of U.S. federal civil rights law, according to a legal complaint filed with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights on Monday. North Central University’s George Floyd scholarship violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits educational institutions from racial discrimination, because it is …

A Rutgers professor defended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices on college campuses on Thursday. Harvard University held a panel featuring scholars and academics to discuss the role DEI bureaucracy plays on college campuses. “Four academics agreed it was important to protect diversity in higher education, but disagreed over whether universities’ diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives clash with academic freedom …